SILENT KNIGHT5820XL-EVS (396 Detectors and 396 Modules) FIRE ALARM

ADDRESSABLE CONTROL COMMUNICATOR SYSTEM

ENGINEER/ARCHITECT SPECIFICATION

Version 3.1

04/16

Silent Knight

12 Clintonville Road

Northford, CT 06472-1610

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SECTION ONE: GENERAL

1.1Scope

This specification document provides the requirements for the installation, programming and configuration of a complete IntelliKnight 5820XLEVS digital protocol addressable fire alarm system. This system shall include, but not be limited to, system cabinet, power supply, built in Signaling Line Circuit (SLC), 80 character LCD annunciator, six programmable Flexput circuits, built-in dual line digital communicator associated peripheral devices, batteries, wiring, conduit and other relevant components and accessories required to furnish a complete and operational life safety system.

1.2Work Included

1.2.1General Requirements

The contractor shall furnish and install a complete 24 VDC, electrically supervised, analog addressable fire alarm system as specified herein and indicated on the drawings. The system shall include but not be limited to all control panels, power supplies, initiating devices, audible and visual notification appliances, alarm devices, and all accessories required to provide a complete operating fire alarm system.

1.2.2Listings

All fire alarm system equipment shall be listed for it’s intended purpose and be compatibility listed to assure the integrity of the complete system.

1.3Standards

The fire alarm equipment and installation shall comply with the current provisions of the following standards and shall be listed for it’s intended purpose and be compatibility listed to insure integrity of the complete system.

1.3.1National Electric Code, Article 760
1.3.2National Fire Protection Association Standards:

NFPA 70National Electrical Code

NFPA 72National Fire Alarm Code

NFPA 101 Life Safety Code

1.3.3Local and StateBuilding Codes

BOCA, National Building Code, Mechanical Code, Fire Prevention Code

1.3.4Local Authorities Having Jurisdiction
1.3.5Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

All equipment shall be approved by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. for its intended purpose, listed as power limited by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., for the following standards as applicable:

UL 864 UOJZ Control units for Fire Protective Signaling Systems

Local Signaling Unit

Central Station Signaling Protected Premises Unit

Remote Signaling Protected Premises Unit.

Water Deluge Releasing Unit

UL 268 Smoke Detectors for Fire Protective Signaling systems.

UL 268A Smoke Detectors for duct applications

UL 217Smoke Detectors for Single Stations

UL 521 Heat Detectors for Fire Protective Signaling systems.

UL 228 Door Holders for Fire Protective Signaling systems.

UL 464 Audible Signaling appliances

UL 1638 Visual Signaling appliances

UL 38Manually Activated Signaling Boxes

UL 346 Waterflow indicators for Fire Protective Signaling systems.

UL 1481 Power Supplies for Fire Protective Signaling systems.

UL 2572 Control and Communication Units for Mass Notification Systems

1.3.6Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

All visual Notification appliances and manual pull stations shall comply with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

1.4General Requirements

1.4.1Manufacturers/Distributors Services

The following supervision shall be provided by a factory trained service technician from the

distributor of the fire alarm equipment. The technician shall be trained and shall have a minimum of

two (2) years of service experience in the fire alarm industry. The technician’s name shall appear on

equipment submittals and a copy of his manufacturer’s training shall be sent to the project engineer.

The technician shall be responsible for the following items:

  1. A pre installation visit to the job site to review equipment submittals and to verify the method by which the system is to be wired.
  2. During the installation the certified technician shall be on site or make periodic visits to verify installation and wiring of the system. They shall also supervise the completion of conduit rough, wires pulled into conduit and wiring rough, and ready for trim.
  3. Upon completion of wiring, final checkout and certification of the system shall be made under the supervision of this technician.
  4. At the time of the formal checkout, technician shall give operational instructions to the owner and or his representative on the system.
1.4.2Submittals

The contractor shall submit three (3) complete sets of documentation within thirty (30) calendar days after award of the purchase order. Indicated in the document will be the type, size, rating, style, catalog number, manufacturer’s names, photos, and /or catalog data sheets for all items proposed to meet these specifications. The proposed equipment shall be subject to the approval of the architect/engineer and no equipment shall be ordered or installed on the premises without that approval.

NOTE: DOCUMENTATION - Submittal of shop drawings shall contain at least three (3) copies of original manufacturer specification and installation instruction sheets. Subsequent information may be copies. All equipment and devices on the shop drawings to be furnished under this contract shall be clearly marked in the specification sheets.

Supplier’s qualifications shall be submitted indicating years in business, service policies, warranty definitions, NICET certification, and completion of factory training program and a list of similar installations.

Contractor qualifications shall be supplied indicating years in business and prior experience with installations that include the type of equipment that is to be supplied.

The contractor shall provide hourly service rates, performed by a factory trained technician for this installed life safety system with the submittal. Proof of training and authorization shall be included with the submittal. These hourly service rates shall be guaranteed for a 1-year period.

1.4.2Contract Close-Out Submittals

Deliver two (2) copies of the following to the owner’s representative within thirty (30) days of system acceptance. The closeout submittals shall include:

1-Installation and programming manuals for the installed life safety system.

2-Point to point diagrams of the entire life safety system as installed. This shall include all connected smoke detectors and addressable field modules.

3-All drawings must reflect device address as verified in the presence of the engineer and/or end user.

1.4.3Warranty

All materials, installation and workmanship shall have a warranty for a three (3) year period, unless otherwise specified. A copy of the manufacturer warranty shall be provided with the close out documentation.

1.4.4Products

This life safety system specification must be conformed to in its entirety to ensure that the installed and programmed life safety system will accommodate all of the requirements and operations required by the building owner. Any specified item or operational feature not specifically addressed prior to the bid date will be required to be met without exception.

Submission of product purported to be equal to those specified herein will be considered as possible substitutes only when all of the following requirements have been met:

1-Any deviation from the equipment, operations, methods, design or other criteria specified herein must be submitted in detail to the specifying architect or engineer a minimum of ten (10) working days prior to the scheduled submission of bids. Each deviation from the operation detailed in these specifications must be documented in detail, including page number and section number, which list the system function for which the substitution is being proposed.

2-A complete list of such substituted products with three (3) copies of working drawings thereof shall be submitted to the approved Architect and/or Consulting Engineer not less than ten (10) working days prior to the scheduled submission of bids.

3-The contractor or substitute bidder shall functionally demonstrate that the proposed substitute products are in fact equal in quality and performance to those specified herein.

1.4.5General Equipment and Materials Requirements

All equipment furnished for this project shall be new and unused. All components shall be designed for uninterrupted duty. All equipment, materials, accessories, devices and other facilities covered by this specification or noted on the contract drawings and installation specification shall be best suited for the intended use and shall be provided by a single manufacturer. If any of the equipment provided under this specification is provided by different manufacturers, then that equipment shall be “Listed” as to its compatibility by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), if such compatibility is required by UL standards.

1.4.6Satisfying the Entire Intent of these Specifications

It is the contractor’s responsibility to meet the entire intent of these specifications.

Deviations from the specified items shall be at the risk of the contractor until the date of final acceptance by the architect, engineer, and owner’s representative.

All costs for removal, relocation, or replacement of a substituted item shall be at the risk of the electrical contractor.

SECTION TWO: SPECIFICATIONS

2.1General

2.1.1Control Panel

Control Panel with Emergency Voice System

The fire alarm control panel (FACP) shall be the Silent Knight 5820XLEVS analog addressable control panel. The audio amplifiers shall be the Silent Knight EVS-50W or EVS-125W voice evacuation units. The FACP must have a 6 amp power supply and be capable of expansion to a maximum of 54 total amps via bus connected expander modules that supervise low battery, loss off AC and loss of communication.

The system must contain at least one Silent Knight EVS-50W or EVS-125Wwatt amplifier and shall be expandable up to 500 watts utilizing up to four additional amplifiers. Each amplifier shall be capable of adding a 4 zone splitter (Silent Knight EVS-CE4) to distribute the audio information to different locations in the installation. The system shall have the capability of controlling up to 40 notification zones. The amplifiers must contain the capability of being remotely located through a four-wire SBUS communications circuit and a two-wire VBUS circuit. The system shall have the capability of adding up to four EVS-RCU remote command units.

The voice evacuation system must have the capability of downloading 15 to 60 second messages and utilize DSP technology for higher audio intelligibility.

The voice evacuation system shall be capable of operating at 25vrms or 70.7vrms for the EVS-50 andonly 25vrms for the EVS-125, must be field selectable at the amplifier level. Systems that require additional modules for voltage conversion shall not be accepted.

The main panel will contain one SLC circuit with the option of utilizing up to three 5815XL expander modules. Each SLC circuit shall support up to 99 detectors and 99 modules. The communication protocol on the SLC loop must be digital.

The FACP must support a minimum of six programmable Flexput circuits. The panel must have a built in 80 character LCD annunciator with the capability of having an additional eightsupervised remote annunciators connected in the field.

The FACP must have a built-in UL approved digital communicator. The communicator must allow local and remote up/downloading of system operating options, event history, and detector sensitivity data.

The FACP must automatically test the smoke detectors in compliance with NFPA standards to ensure that they are within listed sensitivity parameters and be listed with Underwriters Laboratories for this purpose.

The FACP must compensate for the accumulation of contaminants that affect detector sensitivity. The FACP must have day/night sensitivity adjustments, maintenance alert feature (differentiated from trouble condition), detector sensitivity selection, auto-programming mode (Jumpstart) and the ability to upgrade the core operating software on site or over the telephone.

The FACP must have maintenance alert feature (differentiated from trouble condition) and a calibration trouble condition.

The FACP shall have a Jumpstart feature that can automatically enroll all properly connected accessories into a functional system within 60 seconds of powering up the panel. Panels that do not have these capabilities will not be accepted.

The main communication bus (SBUS RS485) shall be capable of class A or class B configuration with a total bus length of 6,000 feet.

2.1.2System Wiring

The Signaling Line Circuit (SLC) and data communication bus (SBUS) shall be wired with standard NEC 760 compliant wiring. No twisted, shielded or mid-capacitance wiring is required for standard installations. All FACP screw terminals shall be capable of accepting 14-18 AWG wire. All system wiring shall be in accordance with the requirements of NFPA 70, the National Electrical Code (NEC) and also comply with article 760 of the NEC.

2.1.3Signaling Line Circuits

Each SLC shall be capable of a wiring distance of 10,000 feet from the SLC driver module (5815XL) and be capable of supporting 99 detectors and 99 addressable module devices. The communication protocol to SLC devices must be digital. Any SLC loop device which goes into alarm must interrupt the polling cycle for priority response from the FACP. The FACP must respond consistently to a device that goes into alarm on an SLC within 10 seconds. The auxiliary 5815XL SLC loop module must be capable of being located up to 6000 feet from the FACP on the SBUS, which is separate from the SLC circuit. The SLC shall be capable of functioning in a Class A or Class B configuration.

2.1.4SLC Loop Devices

Devices supported must include addressable photoelectric and ionization smoke detectors, addressable carbon monoxide detectors, addressable heat detectors, addressable input modules, relay output modules or addressable notification modules. There is to be no limit to the number of any particular device type up to the maximum of 99 detectors and 99 addressable modulesthat can be connected to the SLC.

2.1.5Addressable Detector Functions

The products of combustion detectors must communicate analog values using a digital protocol to the control panel for the following functions:

Automatic compliance with NFPA 72 standards for detector sensitivity testing

Drift compensation to assure detector is operating correctly

Maintenance alert when a detector nears the trouble condition

Trouble alert when a detector is out of tolerance

Alert control panel of analog values that indicate fire.

2.1.6Programmable Flexputs

The FACP shall support six (6) programmable Flexput circuits that are capable of being programmed as supervised reverse polarity notification circuits or supervised auxiliary power circuits that can be programmed as continuous, resettable or door holder power. The circuits shall also be programmable as input circuits in Class A or Class B configurations to support dry contact or compatible two wire smoke detectors.

2.1.7Addressable Notification Module

The contractor shall furnish and install where indicated on the plans, addressable notification modules, Silent Knight model SK-Control. The modules shall be U.L. listed compatible with Silent Knight’s 5820XLEVS fire alarm control panel. The notification module must provide one Class A or Class B notification output with one auxiliary power input. The notification module must be suitable for mounting in a standard 4 inch square electrical box and must include a plastic cover plate. The notification module must provide an LED that is visible from the outside of the cover plate. The notification module must be fully programmable for such applications as required by the installation. The SK-Control shall reside on the SLC loop and can be placed up to 10,000 feet from the control or 5815XL SLC loop module.

2.1.8Annunciators

The main control must have a built in annunciator with an 80-character LCD display and feature LED’s for General Alarm, Supervisory, System Trouble, System Silence and Power. When in the normal condition the LCD shall display time and date based on a 200 year clock which is capable of automatic daylight savings time adjustments. All controls and programming keys are silicone mechanical type with tactile and audible feedback. Keys have a travel of .040 inches. No membrane style buttons will be permissible. The annunciator must be able to silence and reset alarms through the use of a keypad entered code or by using a firefighter’s key. The annunciators must have twenty levels of user codes that will allow the limitation of operating system programming to authorized individuals.

2.1.8Remote Annunciators

The fire system shall be capable of supporting up to eight (8) remote LCD annunciators, Model 5860, and eight (8) LED remote annunciators, Model 5865. LCD remote annunciators shall have the same control and display layout so that they match identically the built-in annunciator. LED remote annunciators shall have individually mapped LED’s and reset and silence inputs. The reset and silence inputs must use the same firefighter’s key as the LCD annunciators. Remote annunciators shall be capable of operating at a distance of 6000 feet from the main control panel on unshielded, non-twisted cable.

2.1.9I/O Module

The fire system shall be able to support up to eight (8) I/O modules, Model 5880, which shall be used to drive remote LED graphic style displays and accommodate up to eight dry contact type switch inputs. The I/O modules shall each drive up to 40 LEDs without requiring external power connections. The I/O module inputs shall be supervised and be suitable for alarm and trouble circuits as well as reset and silence switches.

2.1.10Serial/Parallel Interface

The fire system shall be capable of supporting up to two (2) serial / parallel interface modules, Model 5824, that are capable of driving standard computer style printers. The interface shall be programmable as to what information is sent to it and shall include the ability to print out detector status by point, event history by point and system programming.

2.1.12Distributed Power Modules

The contractor shall supply (where required) a power module, Model 5895XL, compatible with the 5820XLRVS fire alarm control panel. The power module must have 6 amps of output power, six (6) Flexput circuits rated at 3 amps each, and two form C relay circuits rated at 2.5 amps at 24 volts DC. The six Flexput circuits shall have the same functionality as the Flexput circuits on the main panel. The 5895XL shall be capable of being connected via the SBUS at a maximum distance of 6000 feet from the main control panel. The power module shall contain an additional SBUS that is completely compatible with all 5820XLEVS add-on modules including 5860 remote annunciators, 5824 serial/parallel modules and addressable devices. The power module will also act as a bus repeater so that additional SBUS devices can be connected at a maximum distance of 6000 feet from the power module.

The contractor shall supply (where required) a power module model 5496 compatible with the 5820XLEVS fire alarm control panel. The power module must have 6 amps of output power with four (4) notification circuits rated at 3 amps each. The four notification circuits shall operate as reverse polarity notification outputs or auxiliary power outputs for constant, resettable, or door holder applications. The 5496 shall be capable of being connected via the SBUS at a maximum distance of 6000 feet from the main control panel.